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Name: Franco

Surname: Baresi

Franco Baresi (Travagliato, 8 May 1960) is a sports manager, former football coach and former Italian footballer, with a defender role, honorary vice president of Milan.
World champion in 1982 and vice-champion in 1994 with the Italian national team, as a young man he was nicknamed Piscinin and later Kaiser Franz (in honor of Franz Beckenbauer).
Marked from an early age as one of the greatest talents expressed by Italian football and considered among the strongest players in history, he is also counted among the most famous "flags" of all time.
During his career he has always played in Milan, a team in which he played for twenty seasons (from 1977 to 1997) of which fifteen as captain, becoming the second player with more appearances both in terms of the championship and the European cups. With the Rossoneri he has won six league titles, three European Cups, two Intercontinental Cups, three UEFA Super Cups and four Italian Super Cups; together with his team mates Mauro Tassotti, Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Costacurta he composed one of the best defensive lines in the history of football [10] which allowed AC Milan to set the record for consecutive matches without defeat (58) in the five main European leagues ( from May 26, 1991 to March 14, 1993).
With the Italian national team, in which he played for thirteen years wearing the captain's armband from 1991 to 1994, he participated in three world championships (Spain 1982, Italy 1990 and United States 1994) and two European championships (Italy 1980 and West Germany 1988).
Ranked second in 1989 in the Ballon d'Or ranking behind team-mate Marco van Basten, in 2004 he was included in the FIFA 100, the list of the 125 greatest living players drawn up by Pele and FIFA on the occasion of the centenary of the federation, and in 2013 he joined the Italian football Hall of Fame. He occupies the 19th position in the special ranking of the best footballers of the 20th century published by World Soccer magazine. On 16 December 1999, on the occasion of the party organized to celebrate Milan's 100th anniversary, his fans elected him "Milanista of the century", that is, the most representative player in Rossoneri history. He was 17th in the UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll, an online poll conducted by UEFA to celebrate Europe's best footballers from the previous fifty years.

Autograph type: Autograph on autobiographical book of 2021

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